Cricketer’s

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Dubai is awash with sports bars for those who like nothing better that to sip on a pint of two and watch burly men kick chunks out of each other. But Cricketer’s is the one and only place in town dedicated to the gentleman’s game.

The ground floor bar is surprisingly comfortable – a dark wood bar and wall paneling giving it the appearance of colonial opulence – whilst a bank of screens beams in test and one-day matches from across the cricketing world. But the fun doesn’t stop at stumps: Cricketer’s boasts an aurally and aesthetically pleasing triumvirate of female Russian singers, strapped with guitars and a keyboard, and looking not unlike something from a Robert Palmer video. Now you wouldn’t get that down the Oval.

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